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Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read |
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Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:08:17 -0400 |
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> Because there's a lot of past experience where people want to have the
> Windows-style behavior where prompts get prefilled with the (selected)
> default, and they don't understand that in order to get that they need
> to change `completing-read`. So instead they abuse `initial-content` in
> their code (even though it doesn't give quite the same behavior either
> but gets the closer).
Would it be possible to tell users the rest of that?
That is, to tell them what to do instead of using INITIAL-CONTENT?
Ideally it should tell them what mode to enable to get that behavior
for Emacs completion generally.
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- RE: [External] : Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, (continued)
- RE: [External] : Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Drew Adams, 2022/06/29
- Re: [External] : Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Christopher Dimech, 2022/06/28
- Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Arash Esbati, 2022/06/29
- Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/06/29
- Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Arash Esbati, 2022/06/30
Re: [External] : Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Jean Louis, 2022/06/28
Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Jean Louis, 2022/06/28
Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Richard Stallman, 2022/06/29